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Christine Farquharson

Christine joined the IFS in 2015 in the Education and Skills sector. Her work focuses on early intervention, child development, and programme evaluation. Current projects include assessing the impact Sure Start has on children’s health outcomes, piloting an early intervention programme in Peterborough, and modelling the relationship between parental labour supply, childcare choices, and child development.

School of Law, University of Leeds

Graham Farrell

Graham Farrell is professor of crime science at the School of Law, University of Leeds. He previously worked at Oxford University, the United Nations (in Vienna, Austria), at universities in Canada (Simon Fraser) and the US (Rutgers, Cincinnati) and as deputy research director at the Police Foundation in Washington DC. His research has been funded by the ESRC, the EPSRC, the EU, the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council and others. He has worked as a consultant to the United

Queen’s University Belfast

Mark Farrell

Dr Mark Farrell is a UK qualified Actuary (FIA) and Senior Lecturer in Actuarial Science at The Management School, Queen’s University Belfast. Mark’s research interests include Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Insurance Technology (Insurtech). Mark is also a Fulbright Scholar and blogs on technologies affecting the actuarial profession at ProActuary.com.

Philipps-University of Marburg

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

Mohammad R. Farzanegan is Professor of Economics of the Middle East. He has several published or forthcoming articles on economic sanctions, the political economy of COVID-19, and the political economy of oil rents and conflict. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in several prestigious journals including European Journal of Political Economy, Empirical Economics, World Economy, Defence and Peace Economics, Economics & Politics, Scientific Reports, & Energy Economics, among others.

Queen’s University Belfast

Alan Fernihough

Alan Fernihough is an economic historian with research interests in demography, economic growth, and trade.

University of Pittsburgh

Andy Ferrara

Andy Ferrara is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. His research lies at the intersection of economic history, labour economics, and political economy with a focus on discrimination, internal and forced migration, and the consequences of violent conflicts, using state-of-the-art data science and causal inference methods.